Revisiting ‘Big Night,’ the Movie That Made Me Fall in Love With Restaurants

Notes on a classic restaurant film, plus a roundup of the week’s food-related entertainment news

, brought the best aspects of cooking to the big screen, and inspired my own personal love of this genre. Let’s now turn our attention to a little movie calledis the rarest of all food movies: a tight, smart comedy with a big heart, that captures so much of what we love about restaurants.

The movie tells the story of two Italian immigrants— chef Primo , and his maitre d’ brother Secondo — running a struggling restaurant in 1950s New Jersey. Their business, Paradise, is perpetually upstaged by the flashier Italian restaurant across the street, Pasquale’s, whose owner, Pascal , has designs on bringing the brothers into the fold.

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